Crossword clues for chipper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chipper \Chip"per\, v. i. [Cf. Cheep, Chirp.]
To chirp or chirrup. [Prov. Eng.]
--Forby.
Chipper \Chip"per\, a. Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1834, "lively, nimble," American English, from northern British dialectal kipper "nimble, frisky," the origin of which is obscure.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful. n. 1 (context British Ireland slang English) A fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods. 2 (context slang English) A deep frier. 3 (context US English) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper. 4 (context US English) (context smoking English) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user. 5 A machine that chips potatoes ready to be fried and made into chips. 6 Someone who chips (e.g. wood) 7 A sportsman who chips the ball. Etymology 2
v
(context UK dialect English) To chirp or chirrup.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Chipper may refer to:
- Chipper (dog), a dog in the RCA family
- Chipper (golf), a golf club
- Fish and chip shop in Hiberno-English
- Chipper (tobacco), an occasional tobacco smoker or drug user
- Tree chipper, a machine used for reducing wood into smaller parts
- USS Chipper, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
- Chipper (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby chipmunk made by Ty, Inc. in 1999
- Chipper, a children's book by James Lincoln Collier
People:
- Chipper (nickname)
- Eric Chipper, Canadian football player from 1938 to 1950
Chipper is a nickname for:
- Damien Adkins (born 1981), Australian rules footballer
- Waverly Brown (1935–1981), New York police officer killed during an infamous 1981 armed robbery of a Brinks Armored Car
- Chipper Jones (born 1972), American Major League baseball player
- Chipper Lowell, American comedian
Usage examples of "chipper".
But yesterday the real estate lady had been in two or three times with clients, and seemed in her horrifyingly chipper way to think that she had a few serious buyers already.
Our company was just an insignificant item in the global economy, but we had located two chippers who were willing to work for us.
Several companies found that out, to their great cost, when chippers first came into use.
It is necessary for business purposes for chippers to hide their powers so that the pokerface is a professional necessity for them.
An unregulated chipper could influence other people emotions, you know, if they were chipped just right and had talent.
I had a strong urge to try to win the woman for myself but it was not likely that anyone who had a chipper would transfer herself to a mere junior executive, which is what I was in those days.
To transfer herself to another chipper would be something else--and I could see that C-12 was as affected as I was.
She saw Ryan standing at the foot of the bed, fully dressed, grinning and looking chipper, as though he'd been up for hours.
Chipper Dove was blondly handsome, in a spotless, slightly pretty sort of way.
There is nothing more demoralizing to a disestablishmentarian like myself than having to sit and listen to your sister’s chipper voice reading off the morning announcements in homeroom during Spirit Week.
The driver was one Edward Beaverton, and he seemed awfully chipper for a man who had to work before 7:00 A.
He was feeling chipper and reported that his cardiac monitor had been beeping as regularly as a metronome without the slightest suggestion of irregularity.
He summoned the most mobile creatures of the caverns: the large chippers, flying chimeras, small salamanders, and others.
Chipper received the telephone call a few minutes after the day's mail brought him a check, drawn by an Althea Burnside on a bank in De Pere, for Charles Burnside's maintenance at his facility.
She has never been anywhere more exotic than Atlantic City, where Chipper used his frequent-flier miles to escort her for five enchanted days two years before.